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Australia is an amazing country blessed with sweeping landscapes and a wealth of talented composers who make us proud. The works of our great composers cover a diverse range of colours, textures and styles that have inspired audiences both here and abroad. Hal Leonard Australia is pleased to represent a large number of our fantastic Australian composers, a small selection of who are listed below. Please contact us at ausclassical@halleonard.com.au for further information or visit our website for an application form - www.halleonard.com.au/applicationforclassicallicensinghire Brett Dean "...a voice of fertile imagination, originality and expressive subtlety." - Chicago Tribune Brett Dean studied in Brisbane before moving to Germany in 1984 where he was a permanent member of the Berlin Philharmonic for fourteen years. Dean returned to Australia in 2000 to concentrate on his growing compositional activities, and his works now attract considerable attention, championed by conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Markus Stenz and Daniel Harding. One of the most internationally performed composers of his generation, much of Deans work draws from literary, political or visual stimuli, including a number of compositions inspired by paintings of his wife Heather Betts. Dean also performs widely, as solo violist, chamber musician and conductor, and these performing relationships inform and enhance his world as a composer. Recent premieres have included Deans first full-length opera Bliss (libretto by Amanda Holden after the novel by Peter Carey), in a highly-acclaimed production by Opera Australia which was described by The Australian newspaper as a success in every way. Deans String Quintet Epitaphs premiered this season and in February 2011 the Wigmore Hall presented a Brett Dean Composer Day in which Dean performed within a range of chamber music programs exploring his music. Brett Dean is published by Bte and Bock. Title Carlo Orchestration String Orchestra & Keyboard Sampler Epitaphs Two Violins, Two Violas and Cello Twelve Angry Men Twelve Cellos The Lost Art of Letter Writing Violin and Orchestra Short Stories String Orchestra Photo credit: Mark Coulsen Duration 21 minutes 20 minutes 18 minutes 38 minutes 12 minutes

Elena Kats-Chernin "Her status as one of this countrys most prolific and consistently innovative composers remains unchallenged [She] appears to achieve the impossible, straddling the two seemingly irreconcilable camps of intellectualism and accessibility." - Sydney Morning Herald Elena Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan composers working today, having reached millions of listeners worldwide through her prolific catalogue of works for theater, ballet, orchestra, and chamber ensemble. Her dramatically vivid music communicates a mixture of lightheartedness and heavy melancholy, combining strong rhythmic figures with elements of cabaret, tango, ragtime, and klezmer. One of Australias leading composers, Elena Kats-Chernin has created works in nearly every genre. Among her many commissions are pieces for Evelyn Glennie, Ensemble Modern, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Sequitur, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Present Music, and the North Carolina Symphony. Her brilliantly scored, energetic, and often propulsive music has been choreographed by dance-makers around the world. In 2000 she collaborated with leading Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard in a series of large-scale dance works. The first of these, Deep Sea Dreaming, was broadcast to an audience of millions worldwide as part of the opening ceremonies of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Kats-Chernin's music continues to be heard on TV and at the cinema in the UK with the long-running Lloyds TSB advertising campaign "For the journey" employing the Eliza Aria from her ballet Wild Swans. In 2011 Kats-Chernin was appointed Composer-in-Residence with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. It has been a year filled with world premieres, including Obsidian Light, Rivers Lament and Little Green Road to Fairyland. There is more to come including Symphonia Eluvium (Latin for symphony of the floods), a full length symphony inspired by the recent Queensland floods. It tells the stories of these times in four movements, inspired by turbulence and noise, survival and loss, the mud army and resilience, optimism and moving on. Elena Kats-Chernin is published by Bte and Bock. Title Zoom and Zip Charleston Noir Concertino Eliza Aria Re-collecting ASTORoids Orchestration String Orchestra String Quartet or Double Bass Quartet Solo Violin and Ensemble String Quartet Orchestra Duration 13 minutes 8 minutes 17 minutes 3 minutes 17 minutes

Photo credit: Bridget Elliot 2009

Ross Edwards There is no Australian composer whose music is as instantly recognisable as that of Ross Edwards. West Australian One of Australia's best known and most respected composers, Ross Edwards has created a unique sound world which seeks to reconnect music with elemental forces and restore such qualities as spontaneity and the impulse to dance. His music, universal in that it is concerned with age-old mysteries surrounding humanity, is at the same time deeply connected to its roots in Australia, whose cultural diversity it celebrates, and from whose natural environment it draws inspiration, notably through birdsong and the mysterious drones of insects. Ross Edwards's compositions, which are performed worldwide, include five symphonies, concertos, orchestral, chamber and vocal music, children's music, film scores, opera and music for dance. In 2010 Ross Edwards completed two commissions for the West Australian Symphony - Elegies and Epiphanies and Spirit Ground. Other recent works include Missa Alchera - Mass of the Dreaming, commissioned by the Brisbane Chamber Choir and Schola Cantorum, and Sacred Kingfisher Psalms, jointly commissioned by Ars Nova Copenhagen, the Edinburgh International Festival Society, The Song Company of Sydney and Ars Musica Australis. The latter work, premiered to much acclaim at the Canberra Festival in May, was also presented by Ars Nova Copenhagen at this year's Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and later at the Edinburgh Festival. Other recent premieres also include his violin concerto Maninyas, by the Sydney Symphony, Dene Olding and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Exile, a new work commissioned by Julian Burnside for Duo Sol. Title Spirit Ground Orchestration Violin and Orchestra (suitable for youth orchestras) Maninyas Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Arafura Dances Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet Veni Creator Spiritus String Octet or String Orchestra Photo credit: Bridget Elliot Duration 7 minutes 25 minutes 19 minutes 22 minutes 15 minutes

Carl Vine ... Vine is a major talent just waiting to be discovered here in the Old World. 'Radically tonal' (his phrase), the music is accessible but vital, richly coloured with a true, distinctive gift for melody, and somehow fresher than most current European writing. - The Independent on Sunday Carl Vine first came to prominence in Australia as a composer of music for dance, with 25 dance scores to his credit. His catalogue includes seven symphonies, seven concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. His piano music is played frequently around the world. Since 2000 Carl has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world's largest entrepreneur of chamber music. Since 2006 he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival, Australia's most prestigious annual chamber music event. His most recent compositions include Sonata for Piano Four Hands for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a String Quintet for Musica Viva and the Jerusalem Quartet and Symphony No 7 for the West Australian Symphony. 2011 has seen the world premiere of his Concerto for Violin, performed by esteemed violinist Dene Olding alongside the Australian Youth Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard. Carl Vine is published by Faber Music Ltd.

Title Smith's Alchemy Tribe's Desire Violin Concerto V Esperance

Orchestration String Orchestra String Orchestra Violin and Orchestra Orchestra Chamber Orchestra

Duration 15 minutes 21 minutes 23 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes

Peter Sculthorpe One of the worlds greatest living composers. Gramophone Born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1929, Peter Sculthorpe is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, where he began teaching in 1964. He has taught at universities within and outside Australia, and he holds honorary doctorates from universities across the globe. His catalogue of compositions consists of well over 350 works and his compositions are regularly performed and recorded throughout the world. He has written in most musical forms and his output relates closely to the unique social climate and physical characteristics of Australia, and to the cultures of its Pacific Basin neighbours. His geographical outlook as an Australian caused him to be influenced by much of the music of Asia, and especially during the 1960s by that of Japan and Indonesia. In recent years his music has become more deeply influenced by the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island music and culture in which he has taken an active interest since his teenage years. Sculthorpe has a deep love for his country and its landscape, which he regards as sacred. One of the most constant themes in his output is the protection of Australias environment, as well as that of the

whole planet. His preoccupation, too, with the frailty of the human condition can be heard in works such as Earth Cry (1986) and the choral Requiem (2003). The latter grew from his concern about women and children killed in the war in Iraq. While his String Quartet No 16 (2006) addresses the plight of asylum-seekers in Australia detention centres, his String Quartet No 18 is devoted to climate change. Many of these seminal works will be heard at the 2011 City of London Festival, which this year features more music by Sculthorpe than any other composer. The festival will showcase many of his key works including a wide selection of his chamber music and the London premire of his Requiem a performance that Richard Morrison (Times, 31 Dec 10) flagged up as one of the artistic highlights of 2011 The recipient of many awards, Sculthorpe regards the most significant as being chosen as one of Australias 100 Living Treasures (National Trust of Australia, 1997). Peter Sculthorpe is published by Faber Music Ltd. Title Elegy From Uluru Lament for Cello and Strings Songs of Sea and Sky Earth Cry Photo credit: Maurice Foxall Malcolm Williamson a composer of astonishing facility The Guardian Malcolm Williamson was born in Sydney on 21st November 1931. At the age of eleven he went to the Sydney Conservatorium to study piano, violin and French horn and later studied composition with Eugene Goosens. As a young composer he experimented with the 12-tone serial technique and became interested in medieval music. Having fully immersed himself various trends and influences of the day, his music became recognised as a truly individual voice from the mid-1950s. From 1958 he started to earn a living as a night club pianist and this had a major impact on his attitude to the popular music he wrote. These lighter pieces sometimes appeared simultaneously with intensely serious religious works; a juxtaposition that has occasionally baffled his critics. The sheer diversity of his music makes any conventional assessment of Malcolm Williamson as a composer difficult. Moreover, he was never willing to have any label attached to him because he forever sought new means of expressing his ideals and beliefs. His commitment to wide ranging interests from the political, humanitarian and religious to the literary and musical, stemmed from an intense and complex personality. This is reflected in the extremely varied character of his music, which made every new work, each motivated by a different fusion of ideas, an exciting event. Williamson drew on styles that are both technically and musically opposed. The natural surroundings also proved something of an inspiration for his writing: the extremely hot summers of his homeland, the cold and barren wastes of North Sweden and the warmth and colour of Southern France. Orchestration Viola and Strings Orchestra Cello and Strings Violin, Strings & optional Didjeridu Orchestra Duration 18 minutes 3 minutes 11 minutes 16 minutes 12 minutes

He was remarkable in that he was the first non-Briton to be appointed to the position of Master of the Queens Music (1975). He was awarded several honorary doctorates from universities such as Princeton, Sydney and Melbourne, and his homeland honoured him as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1987. He died in Cambridge on 2nd March 2003. Malcolm Williamson is published by Josef Weinberger Ltd. Title Our Man in Havana Suite Concerto Grosso Les Olympiques Ode to Music Violin Concerto Orchestration Orchestra Orchestra and Solo String Quartet Voice and String Orchestra Chorus and Orchestra Violin and Orchestra Duration 19 minutes 10 minutes 24 minutes 5 minutes 26 minutes

Julian Yu This mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar, both in musical terms, is well thought out, sensitive and beautifully realised - Limelight Magazine Born in Beijing in 1957, Julian Yu settled in Australia in 1985. He studied composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, later joining the teaching staff there, and from 1980 to 1982 studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Joji Yuasa and Schinichiro Ikebe. In 1988 Julian Yu was a Composition Fellow at Tanglewood where he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen. Julian Yu is the featured composer in the 2011 Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition in Tokyo, Japan. As part of the program, founded by Toru Takemitsu in 1986, Yu has been commissioned to write an orchestral piece for a performance by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra on 25 August. The concert, conducted by Kazuki Yamada, will be dedicated to Julian Yu's orchestral music. The new orchestral work, entitled Symphonic Suite For Our Natural World, incorporates four movements: (1) 'To the Ocean', (2) 'In the Forest', (3) 'Descent from the Sky', and (4) 'Elegy for the Earth'. The chamber music concert will include Yu's works Philopentatonia, Ciaconnissima, Passacaglia After Biber and Scintillation II, along with his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Julian Yu has received more than twenty awards for composition since 1987, including the Koussevitzky Tanglewood Composition Prize as well as awards in competitions in Japan, Italy, France, the USA and his adopted Australia. In 1991 and 1994, respectively he won the inaugural and the subsequent Paul Lowin Award for orchestral composition with Hsiang-Wen (Filigree Clouds) and Three Symphonic Poems. There is no higher national award available to an Australian composer. On 29-30 September, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of Yu's new orchestral work, Sinfonia Ciaconnissima, conducted by Mario Venzago. Yu believes that quality and beauty in music come from something deeper than the sound produced: that they spring from the pattern of thought, the inner laws or structure of the music, and that it is this inner pattern which gives integrity and individual character to a work.

Title Under the Silver Moonlight Variations on a theme of Paganini Lotus Moon (Chinese Folk Songs) Wu-Yu Lullaby(Sri Lankan folk song) Percy Grainger

Orchestration Orchestra Chamber Ensemble Solo Violin and Orchestra Orchestra Voice and Orchestra

Duration 4 minutes 16 minutes 30 minutes 10 minutes 5 minutes

Percy Aldridge Grainger was born on 8 July 1882 in Brighton, Victoria (Australia), to the renowned architect John H. Grainger. His musical talent showed when he was only a young boy. Aged twelve, he went on his first concert tour as a pianist. In 1895, he travelled to Europe where he studied piano and composition at the Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt for four years. Between 1901 and 1914 he lived in London, where he gradually gained fame as a composer and piano virtuoso. In these days his friendship with the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg developed. Grieg's devotion to the music of his country inspired Grainger to occupy himself with English folk music. With a phonograph he collected numerous examples of English folk music, which he later linked into his own compositions. After the First World War Grainger continued his concert tours and lectures, which also led him back to Australia from time to time. In the 1930's he laid the foundation stone of the Grainger Museum at Melbourne University. In 1928, he married the Swedish artist Ella Viola Strom. Grainger also increasingly dedicated himself to the research and the publication of medieval music and the music of foreign cultures. Towards the end of his life, he worked on methods of carrying out "free music", i.e. music without any restrictions of time or determined intervals. Together with scientist Burnett Cross he developed the so-called "Free Music Machines", which were the predecessors of modern electronic synthesizers. Grainger died on 20 February 1961 in New York and was buried in his family's grave in Adelaide, South Australia. Percy Grainger is published by Schott Music Ltd. Title Irish Tune from County Derry Molly on the Shore The Warriors Handel in the Strand Brigg Fair Orchestration Optional Horns and Strings String Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra Tenor Solo and Strings Duration 5 minutes 3 minutes 18 minutes 4 minutes 4 minutes

Photo credit: Jacobsen & Hansen

Bruce Rowland Bruce Rowland was born on the 9th May, 1942 in Melbourne, Australia. The oldest of three sons, Bruce was born into a very musical family - he, his parents and his brothers shared a passion for music, in particular musical theatre. During the 1960s Bruce worked with pop group The Strangers, backing the most popular recording artists at the time and touring with many international artistis including Roy Orbison and The Beach Boys. Bruce also worked on the popular teenage television series Go Show, playing keyboards and writing arrangements for guest artists like Olivia Newton-John and Billy Thorpe. The eighties started Bruce on some ambitious film projects, writing the scores for some of Australias most successful films. His first film was The Man from Snowy River (1982), which saw the soundtrack achieve double platinum status and won Bruce his first AFI award. Following this tremendous success, Bruce then wrote the scores for Phar Lap (1983) and Rebel (1985) winning him a further two AFIs. Since then, Bruce has written the scores for over 40 films in Australia and the USA. He was honoured in 2006 with the APRA International Achievement Award for his work in film. Along with film, Bruce has also worked on a variety of special projects. In 1988 he was commissioned to write the Royal Fanfare for the opening of Expo 88. In 1996, he was commissioned to write the music for the Prime Ministers Olympic Dinner and then in 2000, Bruce wrote and conducted the music for the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. The performance included a special rendition of his score for The Man from Snowy River. In recent years Bruce has produced music for two Arena shows Australian Outback Spectacular and The Man from Snowy River Arena Spectacular, with the latter scoring him an ARIA award in 2002. Bruces other most recent project is short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, which was nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA. Bruce is currently working on the musical score for Australian film, The Cup, due for release in late 2010. The Cup is a film about Damien Olivers triumph over human adversity when he won the Melbourne Cup in 2002, just one week after his brothers death. It stars Ray Winstone, Stephen Curry, Brendan Gleeson and the late Bill Hunter plays Australias legendary trainer, Bart Cummings. This was Bill Hunters last film role. Title Man from Snowy River (Complete) Phar Lap - Fame Montage All The Rivers Run - Main Theme Man From Snowy River (Jessica's Theme) Man From Snowy River (Main Theme) Orchestration Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra Duration 15 minutes 12 minutes 5 minutes 5 minutes 4 minutes

Matthew Hindson Hindson has amazing range. He could probably wring a concerto from the sound of a doorbell. His source material ranges from classical to Metallica to soothing melodic riffs that may have been extracted from an elevator. San Francisco Chronicle In a short space of time Matthew Hindson (born in Wollongong in 1968) has emerged as the leading Australian composer of his generation. Performed by all the major orchestras of his native country, his music is now finding a global audience. The effect of his invigorating soundworld is immediate and direct. It provokes strong reactions, frequently causing divisions between audience reaction and critical opinion. The music often displays influences of popular music styles within a classical music context, and, as a result, musical elements such as driving repeated rhythms and loud dynamic levels are typically found in many of his compositions. The clue is invariably in the title, with works such as Speed (1997), Rave-Elation (2002), Headbanger (2003), RPM (2003), Rush (1999) and Homage to Metallica delivering a high-octane experience that often leaves audiences and players alike in a state of joyous exhilaration. Its not all up-tempo virtuosity, though. His slow music stays long in the memory, often drawing on harmonies and lyricism derived from popular culture. The slow movements of both the Violin Concerto (2001) and In Memoriam: Amplified Cello Concerto (2000) are the emotional cores of both pieces, whilst Spirit Song from A Symphony of Modern Objects offers a take on New Age music that, whilst tongue-in-cheek, remains a haunting and evocative experience and one that pays homage to Hindsons teacher, Peter Sculthorpe through its use of bird song. Hindson has had particular success in attracting young audiences to classical music, and to the concert hall. Youth orchestras worldwide have succumbed to his musics verve and the messages and fan mail on his website are testament to the broad and refreshing appeal of his musical language. Professional orchestras have also found that his music makes a fascinating and successful ingredient for education and family events and workshops. The London Philharmonic Orchestra have performed several of his short orchestral pieces in this context and, in March 2009, premiered Dangerous Creatures (2008), an orchestral work commissioned by them for their sell-out FunHarmonics series family concerts in the Royal Festival Hall. In May 2002, the Sydney Dance Company toured Australia to much acclaim with a new 90-minute production, Ellipse, choreographed by their Artistic Director, Graeme Murphy, and danced entirely to Hindsons concert music. Playing to packed houses it broke boxoffice records for the company. In 2004 they then toured it throughout the USA to further acclaim. In September 2009 Birmingham Royal Ballet unveiled a new 30-minute orchestral ballet, E=mc2, commissioned and choreographed for them by their Artistic Director, David Bintley. It was lauded by the dance press with Hindson's score garnering particular praise. The production won the prestigious South Bank Show Award for Dance in January 2010. His latest dance work Thinking about Forever premiered at the Sydney Festival in early 2011, a short work that embraces the large issue of sustainability. This year has also seen the world premiere of Hindsons Concerto for Two Pianos by Pascal and Ami Rog with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy. Matthew Hindson is published by Faber Music Ltd.

Title Crime and Punishment Dangerous Creatures Homage to Metallica RPM The Rave and the Nightingale Photo credit: Bridget Elliot

Orchestration Solo Double Bass and Strings Orchestra Orchestra and Solo 1/8 sized Violin (amplified) Orchestra String Quartet and String Orchestra

Duration 10 minutes 25 minutes 14 minutes 4 minutes 16 minutes